Wye Oak’s Jenn Wasner has been on tour with Sylvan Esso as Flock of Dimes, her solo project, and the group made a pit stop to perform a pair of gorgeous covers for the A.V. Club’s A.V. Undercover video series.

Early in December, The A.V. Club released their list of "The best podcasts of 2013," compiled by 15 of their podcast reviewers. Of those 15 contributors, only one woman voted, and coincidentally or not, only one podcast hosted by a woman was included in the final list of the 10 best podcasts of the year.

The always-relevant Onion A.V. Club has coined a term for the type of movie girl-woman whom we've long despised: the Manic Pixie Dream Girl.The A.V. Club defines the MPDG as "that bubbly, shallow cinematic creature that exists solely in the fevered imaginations of sensitive writer-directors to teach broodingly…